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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1915
Page
7
Local classified section shows multiple Help Wanted notes from barbers to factory workers, plus listings for sales agents, housework, apprentices, and cooks. Also numerous For Sale items including real estate, vehicles, furniture, and boats, with contact details and local addresses in Trempealeau and La Crosse Wisconsin.
Heirs offer 40 or 80 acre divisions totaling 23000 acres for sale at 15 dollars per acre with one quarter down and six yearly payments. Properties lie 12 miles east of Rice Lake 14 miles west of Ladysmith and 2 miles north of Wearhouse. Strong soil and timbered with Gayle basswood birch. Visit J Bean in La Crosse Wisconsin for details. Also note pigeon advertisement from Pleasant Hill Pigeon Farm South Bend Indiana.
The Buildings and Grounds Committee invites public bids and plans for a vapor or steam heating system for the County Court House and for plumbing repairs at the County Jail. Proposals due by June 15 1915 with separate bids for jail work as listed in the county clerk’s office.
In La Crosse County Wisconsin probate, C A Hunt administrator of Mary Ann McHugh deceased will sell at public auction on June 25 1915 at 10 AM at the front entrance of the Court House in La Crosse Wisconsin lands Lots 1 and 3 Block 44 Southern Addition to the Village of North La Crosse per plat on file. Terms and conditions to be announced at sale.
The La Crosse Wisconsin Board of Public Works invites sealed bids for city printing services for one year ending July 1 1916. Proposals due June 11 1915 at 2 PM at City Hall with bond of 200 dollars and two sureties. Bids must show total cost per job and conform to schedules on file.
A compact list of wholesale market prices from California sources includes celery per dozen 40 to 50 cents, bananas per bunch 2.00 to 2.50, lemons Sunkist per box 4.50, oranges Valencias 3.00, cider and canned goods priced by barrel or half barrel, onions and potatoes by crate or bushel, various fruits including grapefruit and cherries, and livestock items. Provisions cover lard, shoulders, bacon, ham, and dried beef with fractions of a cent ranges. Flour and feed list per barrel and per ton, plus butter, eggs, and cheese prices from several providers.
Stocks opened lower with Studebaker Union Pacific and American Locomotive down from initial quotes. By 11 o'clock Bethlehem Steel surged to a new intraday high at 168 as the market recovered and overall tone turned strong.
Cattle receipts 4000 market steady to strong with steers 6.05 to 9.00 cows and heifers 4.50 to 8.75 stockers and feeders 6.25 to 8.40 calves 7.00 to 10.00. Hogs receipts 9000 market steady with values 7.60 to 7.75 across categories. Sheep receipts 5000 market steady lambs 8.50 to 11.50 ewes 5.00 to 6.00 stockers and feeders 4.00 to 7.00.
On its return lap of the first trip of the season the packet Quincy of the Streckfus line passed through La Crosse at 5 o clock yesterday afternoon from St Paul. The steamer went north Sunday.
The city announces bid rules for a project with 50 percent bond deposit to bid, separate bonds and cash, and a daily penalty of one half of one percent for delays. Bids may be rejected in whole or part. Dated June 3 1915 by the Board of Public Works.
Chicago Livestock at Union Stock Yards on June 9 shows hog receipts around 30,000 with mixed and butcher weights $7.49 to $7.75, good heavy $7.55 to $7.70, light $7.50 to $7.80, pigs up to $6.00. Cattle receipts 16,000 with beeves $6.75 to $9.50, cows and heifers $3.20 to $8.75, Texans $6.50 to $8.00, calves $7.50 to $10.25. Sheep receipts 8,000 with native $6.40 to $7.10, western $6.50 to $7.20, lambs $7.75 to $10.25, western $8.00 to $10.40, spring lambs $8.00 to $11.15.
Butter Creamery extras quoted at 27 4c for extras and 26 1 2 to 27 1 2c for firsts. Eyes Ordinaries 16 to 16 1 2c, firsts 16 1 2 to 17c. Cheese Twins 14 1 2 to 15c, young Americans 15 to 16c. Poultry fowls 13 to 13 1 2c, ducks 12 to 13c, geese 4 to 6c, springs 22 to 25c, turkeys 15c. Potatoes receipts 42 cars, Wisconsin white 42 to 48c, New Texas 1.36 to 1.40.
Chicago markets list closing bids for wheat corn oats barley rye timothy and clover. Prices show No 3 red wheat at 1.20 percent to 1.28 percent per bushel and various No 2 to No 6 yellow and white corn grades between 71 and 72 and spring and mixed grades around 65 to 71. Prices for timothy and clover are 5.00 to 6.50 and 8.50 to 13.50 per unit respectively.
Chicago Grain Review notes sharp nerves in wheat trading amid Washington developments. Prices shift in response to political tensions and market uncertainty.
The market opened with an overnight loss in securities then edged up on dip buying before a slight decline. Corn rose driven by strong domestic buying while oats slid only modestly as wheat nerves persisted. Provisions held steady or edged down despite higher receipts.
The North Side street car crew identified John H. Hunt of Brooklyn New York as the bandit who robbed the street car in the early morning May 24. Hunt was arrested and sentenced to ten years in Waupun Milwaukee after also holding up a jitney bus driver. He is alleged to have robbed five jitney drivers in Minneapolis before coming to La Crosse. Miss Myrtle Warne the sole passenger on the street car also identified the photograph yesterday.
Athens June 9 official bulletin reports King Constantine's condition improving though not out of danger. Doctors remain hopeful and monitor his health closely.
Enid Oklahoma June 9 revised figures show fifteen to twenty persons injured in the Frisco wreck north of town. Bank Examiner Foster earlier reported seriously injured but is not badly hurt.
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